Tom Smithies 1627437550,1627437550 IT’S doubtful any of the current Olyroos squad remembers much of the NSL, given that many were aged around five or six at the time of the former national league’s closure. Some are even too young to remember much of the last time Australia played men’s football at the Olympics in 2008, a tournament in which they went into the last group game with hopes of making it through to the knockout stages – just as they do again tonight, against Egypt. Instead, this is the first senior Australian men’s squad that can in the main be stamped “made in the A-League”. Two thirds of its 22 members came through A-League academies, from the point six years ago when the clubs assumed the main responsibility for youth development across the country.